Gold Leaf

Gold Leaf, a period drama in Hakka, reproduces the glorious 1950s era of the tea trade in Taiwan. The story depicts the journey of the Sunlight Corp., a tea company owned by tycoon CHEN Fu-ji, from its thrive during glorious times of Taiwan tea into a bump in the road in the 1940s, when the market of Taiwan tea entered a transition period.

In 1949, ZHANG Yi-xin, the only daughter of the largest tea exporter in Taiwan, was supposed to find a man for uxorilocal marriage to take over her life and the huge business of her father, Ji sang. However, to prove her worth, Yi-xin devotes herself into the family business, which is in heavy debts. In an era where there was no room for a “career woman”, how would she lead the crumbling company to the world through “trade wars” in the tea market?